New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-17
THE NEWS IN LONDON.
PARTY PASSIONS IN THE COERCION CAM
PAIGN STEADILY RISING.

RuLERs-DIsGRACEFUL WORK IN THE HOUSE
ROMANCE OF AN AMERICAN GIRL
EASTER WEEK AT THE THEA
TREs-THE WILD WEST.
icy CABLE TO THE rRIBUHkl
cepyrteht, 1887, NORTH Amsr'ea" Gable Ns~' Co.
IoypoN April l6.-.Sir George Trevslyans long
ht,sr against Coercion IL perhaps the most effect
.,s protest yet heard against the Government bill
Hs calls IL . political bill Tho coercion which
IA and Earl Spencer worked in ireland was
directed against crime. This will be directed
AGAINST opinion anl will be worked by partisans
That 10 the substance Of Sir George TroveIyan's
epiectious, which he olaborates with his usual
Nterarv skiil The effect may be seen in the bitter
attack on him in to-day's Times, which represents
him AZ osci!lating backward and forward and back
ward again from Home Rule to Unionism, then
toward ar. Gladstone, then frightened by the out
cry, returning to the Union!st camp, and now TAX
ing another change of front. at is rapidly becom.
ing q question:" says The Times, "whether Sir
George Trevelyan can lend strength to any cause"
That is tho cry of Unionst who sees the Unionist
ranks opening. But perhaps Sir George Trevelyan
IL by temperament something of the frondem.
Liberals view with somo alarm Mr.. Chamber
la,u's progress in Scotland. He is speaking with
extraordinary vlgor point and knowledge OF Scotch
audiences. He sums up the Ministerial case as no
Minister has yet summed 1t up, in condensed, cpl
gramnatr and quotable phrases. at is not" said
Mr.. Chamberlain at Edinburgh, "a question be-
tween conciliation and coercion you have to
decide You have only before you choice between
coercion by tho law and coercion by the League"
Gladstonians have said he went to Scotland in
order to avoid voting for the Coercion bill. lie
docs not think the charge worth noticing, but
passage IN his speech supplies an answer. u
dread the necessity for repressive legislation yet
am prepared to use force. If necessary oil the
force that may be required. in order to preserve
liberty and at all hazards and in all circumstances
to MAINTAIN the supremacy of law against law
breakers" He derides the present agitation
throughout the country against Coercion as an
artificial agitation. Speaking as an expert he says
he never witnessed anything SO hollow. Most OF
tho meetings are hole-and-corner meetings His
attacks on the Gladstonans and Parnellites exceed
IN pa nness of speech anything he has before said
preachers of assassination who ara deciding the
tate of the Liberal party.
Feeling on both sides is in fact daily. and above
all nightly, rising higher. The scene last night in
the House of Commons was of a most deplorable
kind. Nobody can say how it might have ended
but for the efforts of the Speaker, whose conduct
wruog euIogiums from tho Irish members them
selves aud from their organ this morning. Major
Saunderson's accusation against portion of the
Parnelltes was one of which he did not himself
seem to feel the force. The Times has, during the
last few weeks, continually accused the leading
Parueites Of consorting with criminals They sat
silent under the printed charge which uttered IN
the House they met with cries of Internal liarP
and Coward! !" and threats of personal violence
70 Major Sauuderson. The question what may and
what may Of be said in Parliament 10 sIerplexiDg
Major Saunderson was allowed to accuse Mr.
Healy Mr. Sc kton and others Of being members OF
tho T., ecutive Council of the League and assocat
ing 10 that capacity with Sheridan, whom they
knew TO he q murderer. Mr. heay was then sqs-
pended for calling Major Saunderson lar Mr.
Sexton thereu pom repeated tnat Major Saunderson
was o wilful, cOwardly liar the Irish member
wildly cheering him. Major Saunderson then
withdrew that art of the phrase affirming that
Mr. Sexton knew Sheridan murderer. and
Mr.. Sexton in turn withdrew the "lar" Ten
minutes later Major saunderson said M. Sexton
saw Mr.. Egan elected president OF the Clan-na-
Gael, murdcrous association. The Speaker com
pelled him to withdraw this az supplementary
and received Mr.. Sections thanks. The feeling Of
tho House was that the Sr eaker went very far from
his wish to stop what he rightly called disgrace
ful seems before passions had become uneontrolable
Meantime Mr.. Labouchere and other extreme men
openly advise the Irish tc resist il tho Coercion bill
becomes Q law. lie advocates in tc-day's Times
replacing tho League, If suppressed by secret
societies, and repeats that rack-renting landlords
svic,ors and the wretcbes who take cvicted farms
are all agents Of despotsm and should be treated
- lepers Mr.. Gladstone pours forth daily letters
each short, fiery and full of 1nqueucbable energy.
Debate in the House is in no way remarkable, save
for personalities
The Nihilist meeting in New-York with its futile
protest against an extradition treaty with Rusaia
provokes Tory comment. The Nibiiist vote. says
the buest Of Tory journals Is not yet large enough
to turn elections in the United States. Therefore
American politicians are not bound to pay court to
Nihiist lnurdsrors or help these gentry collect
money; and hence Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Bayard
are sbIe to provide for the surrender Of Russian
dyuamitards The 81. JarneSs Gazette considers that
Nsssrs. Ford. Sullivan and Rosa must regard this
treaty with amused interest. There Is much other
comment In the same querulous tone
Tho truth about tho Victoria catastrophe is